Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1877–1880

This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 11 May 1877.[1] Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time.

There was an electoral redistribution which came into effect in 1877, fourteen districts were created (Barwon, Benambra, Boroondara, Carlton, Delatite, Fitzroy, Footscray, Geelong, Grant, Kara Kara, Kilmore and Anglesey, Maryborough and Talbot, Moira, Stawell) and eight abolished (Kilmore, The Murray, Murray Boroughs, South Grant, Crowlands, Geelong East, Geelong West, Maryborough).[2]


Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate.
Name Electorate Term in Office
John Andrew West Melbourne 1877–1880
John Mitchell Barr Maryborough & Talbot 1877–1883
William Bayles Villiers & Heytesbury 1864–1880
Henry Bell Ballarat West 1877–1886
Thomas Bent Brighton 1871–1894; 1900–1909
Graham Berry Geelong 1861–1865; 1869–1886
George Billson Ovens 1877–1880; 1883–1886
John Bird Grenville 1877–1880
W. G. Blackham [a] Sandhurst 1877
Joseph Bosisto Richmond 1874–1889; 1892–1894
Robert Bowman Maryborough & Talbot 1866–1870; 1877–1885; 1890–1893
Daniel Brophy Ballarat East 1877–1880; 1880–1883
Donald Cameron West Bourke 1877–1880
Ewen Cameron Evelyn 1874–1914
Godfrey Carter St Kilda 1877–1883; 1885–1900
James Casey Mandurang 1861–1862; 1863–1880
Alfred Clark Williamstown 1871–1887
Robert Clark Sandhurst 1877–1883
Robert Clark Wimmera 1877–1880
William Mitchell Cook East Bourke Boroughs 1876–1883
Thomas Cooper Creswick 1877–1889
Thomas Cope Portland 1868–1880
Benjamin George Davies Avoca 1861–1880
David Davies Grenville 1877–1894
Edward Dixon St Kilda 1874–1880; 1889–1894
John Dow Kara Kara 1877–1893
Charles Gavan Duffy North Gippsland 1856–1864; 1867–1874; 1876–1880
John Gavan Duffy Dalhousie 1874–1886; 1887–1904
Jeremiah Dwyer [b] Villiers & Heytesbury 1877–1879
James Farrell [c] Castlemaine 1866–1878
James Fergusson South Bourke 1871–1874; 1877–1880
George Fincham Ballarat West 1875–1886
Simon Fraser Rodney 1874–1883
David Gaunson Ararat 1875–1881; 1883–1889; 1904–1906
Duncan Gillies Rodney 1861–1868; 1870–1877; 1877–1889
James Macpherson Grant Avoca 1856–1870; 1871–1885
James Graves Delatite 1877–1900; 1902–1904
Thomas Hunt Kilmore and Anglesey 1874–1892; 1903–1904
John James Ballarat East 1869–1870; 1871–1886
Robert de Bruce Johnstone Geelong 1870–1881
George Kerferd Ovens 1864–1886
Charles Kernot Geelong 1868–1871; 1876–1880; 1880–1882
Mark King [d] Footscray 1859–1861; 1864–1874; 1875–1879
Peter Lalor Grant 1856–1871; 1874–1889
George Langridge Collingwood 1874–1891
John Laurens North Melbourne 1877–1892
Jonas Levien [e] Barwon 1871–1877; 1880–1906
Francis Longmore Ripon & Hampden 1864–1883; 1894–1897
Andrew Lyell Emerald Hill 1877–1880
George Macartney [f] South Gippsland 1869–1871; 1877–1878
James MacBain Wimmera 1864–1880
James McCulloch [g] Warrnambool 1856–1861; 1862–1872; 1874–1878
Robert Macgregor [h] Fitzroy 1877–1879; 1880–1883
John McIntyre Sandhurst 1877–1880; 1881–1902
Charles MacMahon [i] West Melbourne 1861–1864; 1866–1878; 1880–1886
John MacPherson [j] Dundas 1864–1865; 1866–1878
John Madden Sandridge 1874–1875; 1876–1883
James Mirams Collingwood 1876–1886; 1887–1889
Thompson Moore Mandurang 1871–1880; 1883–1886
James Munro Carlton 1874–1880; 1881–1883; 1886–1892
John Nimmo Emerald Hill 1877–1892
William O'Hea Polwarth & South Grenville 1859–1861; 1877–1880; 1880–1881
John Orr Moira 1862–1867; 1872–1874; 1877–1880
John O'Shanassy Belfast 1856–1865; 1877–1883
James Patterson Castlemaine 1870–1895
James Purves Mornington 1872–1880
Robert Ramsay East Bourke 1870–1882
John Rees Grant 1877–1889
Richard Richardson Creswick 1874–1886; 1889–1894
Henry Sainsbury Creswick 1877–1880
James Service Maldon 1857–1862; 1874–1881; 1883–1886
George Sharpe Moira 1877–1880
Alexander Kennedy Smith East Melbourne 1877–1881
George Paton Smith [k] Boroondara 1866–1871; 1874–1877
John Smith [l] West Bourke 1856–1879
Louis Smith Richmond 1859–1865; 1871–1874; 1877–1880;
1880–1883; 1886–1894
William Collard Smith Ballarat West 1861–1864; 1871–1892; 1894–1894
Frederick Leopold Smyth North Gippsland 1866–1875; 1877–1880
Joseph Storey North Melbourne 1877–1881
Albert Tucker Fitzroy 1874–1900
William Tytherleigh Normanby 1877–1880
Henry Roberts Williams Mandurang 1877–1883; 1889–1902
John Woods Stawell 1859–1864; 1871–1892
Peter Wright Benambra 1861–1864; 1877–1880; 1886–1889
Charles Young Kyneton Boroughs 1874–1892
Ephraim Zox East Melbourne 1877–1899

Gavan Duffy was Speaker, John James was Chairman of Committees.

[a] Blackham resigned in July 1877,[3] replaced by Angus Mackay the same month.
[b] Dwyer left Parliament around November 1879, replaced by Joseph Jones who was sworn-in in December 1879.
[c] Farrell resigned around May 1878; replaced by Charles Henry Pearson, sworn-in July 1878.
[d] King died 13 February 1879; replaced by William Clark, sworn-in July 1879.
[e] Levien was unseated in December 1877 replaced by John Ince the same month.
[f] Macartney died 2 June 1878; replaced by Francis Mason, sworn-in July 1878.
[g] McCulloch resigned around May 1878; replaced by James Francis, sworn-in July 1878.
[h] Macgregor resigned around June 1879; replaced by Cuthbert Robert Blackett, sworn-in July 1879.
[i] McMahon resigned in February 1878, replaced by Bryan O'Loghlen the same month.
[j] Macpherson resigned July 1878; replaced by John Serjeant, sworn-in August 1878.
[k] G. P. Smith died 6 December 1877, replaced by Robert Murray Smith who was elected on 24 December 1877,[4] sworn-in in February 1878.
[l] J. Smith died 30 January 1879, replaced by Alfred Deakin who was sworn-in in July 1879.
Members of the Parliament of Victoria
Legislative Council

1876–1878 • 1878–1880 • 1880–1882

Legislative Assembly

1874–1877 • 1877–1880 • 1880–1883

References

  1. ↑ "Elections since 1856". Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876". Australasian Legal Information Institute. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Blackham Resigns". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 7 July 1877. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  4. ↑ The Argus 24 December 1877